Character (NPC) Reference Book?

[charmwitch]

Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well.

I know we have the Eorzea Encyclopedias, I currently own both of them, but I was wondering if there was any interest for Final Fantasy XIV specific Character (NPC) Books? Like, books we can reference character NPCs from the story for quick information. I thought about it after it was mentioned in the Japanese Fan Festival (2019) that most writers have specified birthdays for all of the characters, but they didn't think the information was important to anyone. I really enjoy information like this and find that while the Eorzean Encyclopedias offer a lot of really good information, it doesn't cover all characters and focuses mostly on the world itself. Last time I inquired (in regards to a specific Job Quests with missing info), I was told that pages are often limited to the two most important characters for a given questline when there's some quest lines that offer numerous characters of importance.

A new expansion is upon us, which means that there's a ton of new characters and stories to be told, but I would genuinely appreciate something that covered older characters and gave us a bit more information on them. I know it's asking for a lot, but I'm actually really fond of the NPCs in Eorzea because some of the recurring quest lines give a lot of depth to Eorzea (and onward) and would like to revisit them somehow.

Thank you for reading this, I don't tend to post on the forums but I wanted to make my earnest thoughts known.

[CaesarCV]

To my knowledge the Encyclopedia Eorzeas are the only things similar to that, them even having lots of NPC information.

[charmwitch]

To my knowledge the Encyclopedia Eorzeas are the only things similar to that, them even having lots of NPC information.

I mentioned above that I do own those books already,

I'm not asking to know what books exist, I'm just expressing interest in new reading material pertaining to older content of the game (NPCs specifically) because the EEs, while very in depth and great sources of information for the world itself, do not list all major npcs due to page constraints. I think a resource book focusing on key aspects of FFXIV would just be really cool, and there's definitely extra information we just don't know about. I've seen screenshots of the NPC spreadsheets they have for creating quest characters and story related characters and would like that documented somewhere for easy reading. They have birthdays apparently! Ahh! I want to know these secrets!!!

Currently, the only information online about NPCs is directly from the EE (which does not cover all characters) and just... re-watching the scenes yourself/keeping tabs on dialogue manually. I think for quick reference, it'd be a great addition.

If you're wondering, I ask because I like to draw a lot of dumb stuff and would love more specific, official sources of information.